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Michael Mann to head Venice jury
19 hours ago | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
American director, screenwriter and producer Michael Mann will preside over the international Jury of the competition of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, the first one directed by Alberto Barbera, taking place from August 29 until September 8, 2012.
Born in Chicago in 1943, Mann is one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American film. After having written, produced and directed a few television series, he made his debut in film directing in 1981 with Thief, which was followed by the big success as an executive producer of the cult TV series Miami Vice (1984). His characteristic post-modern style comes out in all its complexity in Manhunter (1986), a film which marks the first appearance on our screens of the character of Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal psychologist.
His name is particularly associated with city thrillers such as Heat (1995), which saw Al Pacino and Robert De Niro starring together for the first time, Collateral (2004, out »
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Michael Mann To Chair Jury At 69th Venice Film Festival
21 hours ago | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
The American director, screenwriter and producer Michael Mann – a total filmmaker and one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American cinema – has been designated to chair the International Jury for the Competition at the 69th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September 2012), which will award the Golden Lion and other official prizes. The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon the recommendation of the Director of the Venice Film Festival Alberto Barbera. As a producer, Michael Mann won recognition as the creative force behind some of the most successful series in television (Miami Vice, Crime Story), which contributed to creating new standards of quality borrowed from filmmaking. As a screenwriter and especially as a director, he developed his own very personal style in thematic and formal elaborations drawn prevalently from the American urban experience (Manhunter, Heat, Insider, Ali, »
- MIKE FLEMING
Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 5 of 5)
30 May 2012 10:08 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Gary Oldman as Jackie Flannery in State Of Grace (Phil Joanou, 1990, USA):
Long considered one of the most talented actors in cinema, it’s very strange that his outstanding acting as the younger brother of Ed Harris’ local crime boss in this underrated film doesn’t get talked about nearly enough when discussing Oldman’s body of work. This is a must-see performance for all Oldman fans. For the record, State Of Grace is a far better Irish mob film than The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006, USA), primarily because it contains much better acting across the board. Oldman was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011, UK/France).
Other notable Gary Oldman performances: Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears, 1987, USA), Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992, USA), True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993, USA), Leon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994, France), Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997, USA), The Contender (Rod Lurie, »
- Terek Puckett
Clip joint: Heists and getaways
30 May 2012 5:01 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Buckle up and hit the gas with us as we find cinema's best high-speed crooks-on-wheels
This week's Clip joint is by David Keeble, who you can follow on Twitter here, and visit his website here. Think you can do better? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk.
Heists and getaway scenes in films are always fun to watch. They are scenes that build up suspense, which is then slowly released to the audience as we watch our heroes and anti-heroes try to get in and out of danger. Heists and getaways also have the ability to be incredibly creative about just how our characters pull them off. From Johnny Depp jumping over a bank counter with a Thompson sub-machine gun during America's Great Depression in Public Enemies (2009) to Robert De Niro and his crew causing one of the »
- Guardian readers
Luck: HBO’s Most Ironically Titled Series
2 May 2012 2:16 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Luck. It really should have been so sweet. A show created by one of TV’s most commercially and critically successful producers, a pilot directed by one of the more important filmmakers of his generation, a cast of famous faces and stellar supporting talent, on the network Americans (and indeed, the world) have come to associate with the highest quality programming.
Thirty-five million dollars later, we’ve got little to show for it.
I defy any of you out there to claim you were more excited for Luck than I was. After all, you have not, I dare say, been maintaining a series of essays on every single episode of NYPD Blue, the ’90s cop show created by David Milch (along with Steven Bochco). Milch then went on to create for HBO the western Deadwood, easily the finest western to ever grace the small screen and no minor factor in the success of Timothy Olyphant, »
- Jimmy Callaway
A Michael Mann Retrospective
6 February 2012 5:39 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Flickering Myth presents a detailed look at the work of the acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann...
Whether it is a Native Indian raised trapper caught in crossfire of the colonial wars between Britain and France or an investigative journalist undermined by corporate interests, Michael Mann has the remarkable ability to explore the nuances of human behavior within an epic environment. To commemorate the 69th birthday of the Chicago born filmmaker, Flickering Myth has assembled a career overview which contains various insider insights detailing the making of his ten feature films starting with Thief (1981) and concluding with Public Enemies (2009)...
Mann Handled: A Michael Mann Profile
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Michael Mann in a two-part article from 2009.
Thief, 1981.
Written and Directed by Michael Mann.
Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, James Belushi, Dennis Farina, William Petersen and Robert Prosky.
Synopsis:
A professional safecracker’s plan for going straight spirals out-of-control when »
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And Then The Camera Goes Up The Jockey's Ass: A Close Look at "Luck"
30 January 2012 8:28 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Like the double-wide premiere for HBO's Boardwalk Empire, the pilot for the network's new horse-racing series Luck—first broadcast December 11th, and then re-run this past Sunday—represents a meeting of two distinctive authorial voices. In the case of the Boardwalk Empire pilot—a high-water mark of style and efficiency that the frequently-frustrating series has never managed to live up to, aside from a couple of episodes neatly directed by Carpenterite horror specialist Brad Anderson—it was episode director / series executive producer Martin Scorsese and episode writer / series creator Terrence Winter; in the case of Luck, it's episode director / series executive producer Michael Mann and episode writer / series creator David Milch.
The interplay of low-lifes and big spenders in Luck's pilot is distinctly Milch's. It's clear from the episode's structure alone—a lot of jargony horse-racing intrigue spinning around a story about four track regulars who finally win it »
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
27 January 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Director Nicholas Wending Refn's film is more defined by what it doesn't do than by what it does. The plot – wafer thin and corny as hell – is the sort of thing normally dressed up by one-liners, explosions and rapid-cut editing to disguise just how laughably trite it is.
On paper, this could be yet another Hollywood action movie, but Refn is slow and serious where others are fast and furious. The minimal story of a stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver and becomes a hero to the woman he loves is pared down even more into something that aims for the stark simplicity of Michael Mann's debut movie, Thief, and Walter Hill's The Driver, two classics which make up the bulk of Drive's DNA. Ryan Gosling tersely plays the driver (and that's how he's credited, not with a name but with a profession) as a black hole. »
- Phelim O'Neill
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